anger-machine

Updated: August 8, 2026

Then he automatically defends himself with you, starts up his anger-machine, and nothing more can be said. What a man does his not-listening with is not with his soul, but with his machine. The very essence of anger is that it is unspirited and automatic.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want